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I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked
I recount interactions with the film industry as it campaigns against Upton Sinclair in California. Hollywood figures and studios mobilize to defeat Sinclair, using newsreels and propaganda, while Hearst Mayer and others press political influence. The piece portrays the power of motion pictures in shaping politics and industry leverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Movies
Sinclair
Augustus Thomas
Ben Hampton
J.P. Morgan
Chinatown
Motion Picture
King Coal
Jimmie Higgins
Carpenter
Boston
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
New York
Hollywood
Louis B. Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Europe
Republican Party
Hearst
Marion Davies
Bad Nauheim
Marion
Hanfstaengel
United States
America
Huffy
Hitler
Hamlin
Mrs. Hearst
Florida
Warner Brothers
Joseph Schenck
United Artists
Veriest Bank
South America
Asia
Africa
Australia
London “News-Chronicle
Jean Harlow
James Cagney
Katherine Hepburn
Upton Sinclair
Frank Scully
Dorothy Parker
Morris Ryskind
Gene Fowler
Lewis Browne
Jim Tully
Will Hays
New York “Times
Los Angeles
Merriam
Seenclair
Mr. Sinclair
Russia
Oscar Rankin
Los Angeles County
Louie Bee
Minnesota
Mississippi
Washington
Hollywood Reporter
Louis Mayer
Irving Thalberg
Charlie Pettijohn
Carey Wilson